Damn That Man Made Global Warming! - Part V

Oh man!  here is even more evidence of global warming at its worse!
From mlive.com:
record_snowfall_mich 

It's just as you suspected - this has been the snowiest winter ever in the Ann Arbor area, or at least since 1880 when record-keeping started.

And it's not over yet.

That's because we're not even into April, a month that normally averages almost 2.5 inches of that pesky white stuff.

If this winter continues the way it's been going, we could be in store for more than that.

Consider this month.

Normally in March, we get about 8.3 inches of snow, said Dennis Kahlbaum, a University of Michigan weather observer. So far in March, with more than a week to go, we've seen 16.7 inches of fluffy precipitation.

A good chunk of that came Friday night and early Saturday morning.

The storm - a narrow band across southern Michigan - dropped 7.5 inches of snow in Ann Arbor, Kahlbaum said.

That was enough to send this winter into the record books and shove the 2004-05 winter aside.

In 2004-05, 83.9 inches of snow fell. This year, we're sitting at 85 inches.
That's a lot of shoveling.

"It seems like I've shoveled a lot this year," said Tori Williamson, 49, who was in front of her Ypsilanti home Saturday. "I've always been fine with shoveling, but now I'm thinking about a snowblower for next winter."

I liked many of the comments left on mlive.com:

We better figure out how to keep our planet from cooling. At this rate in 20 years we'll all be living in igloos and or maybe even freeze to our deaths. If anyone knows how to warm this place up please say something.
Global Warming = brainwashing

Brainwashing?  God damn right. 
How about this one:

On this ever changing planet, the human race is just along for the ride. We couldn't heat the planet if we tried. And we can't cool the planet if we tried. There are some things that we cannot control and the weather is one of them. Global warming is biggest sham of a political money grab in the history of our civilization.

Again, that's what I've been saying. It's going to be a matter of time before people start to wake up to this global warming/climate change bullshit.

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Gravatar # re: Damn That Man Made Global Warming! - Part V
by Andy at 3/23/2008 7:42 PM

"...As we rapidly increase Earth's average temperature, some regions, such as high latitudes will experience greater warming than others, such as the tropics. As warming alters ocean and atmosphere circulation patterns, some regions could even experience cooling..."

A.K.A. Ann Arbor, MI, apparently.

"...Much of Western Europe is now warmed by ocean circulation as well as the atmosphere. Heat is transported to the region by a global ocean circulation pattern variably known as thermohaline circulation, the North Atlantic heat pump, or the "Great Ocean Conveyor Belt." This "heat pump" pulls warm salty water northward from the tropics into the North Atlantic, where heat is released, warming air temperatures over Europe.

As Earth warms, melting of ice caps and glaciers, increased precipitation and other inflows of fresh water..."

FRESH WATER? WHAT, LIKE THE GREAT LAKES? AREN'T THEY BY MICHIGAN?

"...to the North Atlantic Ocean may weaken or shut down thermohaline circulation. This change in ocean circulation could disrupt the transfer of heat northward from the tropics, resulting in cooling in the North Atlantic region. Regional cooling of as much as 14-29°F (8-16°C) has been seen in the past climate record. However, any regional cooling would be superimposed on the global warming that is already underway. Contrary to the "Day After Tomorrow" dramatization, abrupt climate change will not result in an ice age, because the cooling effects are regional and Earth is currently in an interglacial, or warm, period..."




A LONG EXPLANATION FOR A SIMPLE POINT...JUST BECAUSE SOME REGIONS ARE COLD LATELY DOESN'T MEAN THAT THE EARTH AS A WHOLE ISN'T OVERHEATING. IN MY 8TH GRADE SCIENCE CLASS I LEARNED THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CORRELATION AND FACT. HOW ABOUT YOU??

Ugh...arguing with you is like Black Tar Heroin...why do I do this to myself, Braden?



  
Gravatar # re: Damn That Man Made Global Warming! - Part V
by Braden at 3/23/2008 7:58 PM

"Ugh...arguing with you is like Black Tar Heroin...why do I do this to myself, Braden?"

It's an obsession. Trust me, I've been in your same exact shoes.

I know precisely how you feel.
  
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